Even if they didn't get the treatment they deserved, they still chose to move forward, not for anything else, but hoped that through their own efforts, they could one day gain dignity and freedom. However, in the film they don't get it. What about reality? Let's take a look at the last subtitle of the film: "In 1959, a law was passed to freeze the pensions of soldiers in the old French colonies who had obtained independence. In January 2002, after a lengthy hearing, the European Parliament asked the French government to fully to pay these pensions, but the successor government refuses to pay them." If it weren't for this movie, perhaps, as the veterans get older, this history will also be in the dust.
One of the purposes of the Nazis' war was to racially cleanse, and is France's role in this film the same as the Nazis? The fact that the status of those soldiers is not recognized so far is even more sad than the discrimination of the past, because it unconsciously affects the minds of young people who do not understand history. In 2005 it was no surprise that race riots broke out.
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